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The Submembrane Machinery For Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Clustering, S. C. Froehner
The Submembrane Machinery For Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Clustering, S. C. Froehner
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Ecdysterone Regulatory Elements Function As Both Transcriptional Activators And Repressors., Leonard Dobens, Karen Rudolph, Edward M. Berger
Ecdysterone Regulatory Elements Function As Both Transcriptional Activators And Repressors., Leonard Dobens, Karen Rudolph, Edward M. Berger
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A synthetic, 23-bp ecdysterone regulatory element (EcRE), derived from the upstream region of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp27 gene, was inserted adjacent to the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter fused to a bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Hybrid constructs were transfected into Drosophila S3 cells and assayed for ecdysterone-inducible CAT expression. In the absence of ecdysterone a tandem pair of EcREs repressed the high constitutive level of CAT activity found after transfection with the parent reporter plasmid alone. After hormone addition very high levels of CAT activity were observed. Insertion of the EcRE pair 3' of the CAT gene …